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Next to one of one of the city’s busiest trails, Milk & Maple offers kosher and community
On a busy weekend afternoon, thousands of people pour through the Eastside Trail of Atlanta’s BeltLine, a decommissioned railway line that now serves as a wide pedestrian corridor for three miles through the city. They go past the former rail line, murals...
A Jewish baby boy joins the Covenant of Abraham at Fort Sam Houston
It was an unusual Sukkot gathering at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, a mix of service members in uniform mingling with civilians who had been cleared to enter the base. After all, it isn’t every day that a brit milah (or bris) takes place on a U....
$2.5 million facility in Quebec more than 20 years in the making
Two days before her daughter’s wedding this past June, Sharyn Hoppenheim accompanied her to the mikvah for her first immersion. Years earlier, Hoppenheim had immersed herself for the first time, at age 50. Her daughter had been there to support her then. ...
This Simchat Torah, two Torah scrolls that escaped persecution are being celebrated once again
The dancing at Chabad-Lubavitch at the Shore in Ventnor, N.J., was already underway on Simchat Torah 2023 when the horrific news from Israel, of the Oct. 7 Massacre, began to spread through the room. It came in fragments, each update worse than the last. ...
Launched in 1943, Merkos Shlichut summer visitation program finds new Jewish frontiers
On their final day in Whitehorse, Yukon, in the extreme northwestern region of Canada, rabbinical students Avremy Matusof and Shloimy Stern were sitting with local Rick Karp in the hotel lobby when a young Brit at a nearby table struck up a conversation. ...
Innisfil’s new Chabad center, including a kosher café, serves fast-growing scenic town
On Sunday, July 26, Rabbi Zevi and Mussy Kaplan looked on as families moved steadily through the doors of the newly completed Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center on 6th Line in Innisfil, Ontario, about an hour north of Toronto. Some stayed for the day. Others ...
Chabad finds a way to feed tourists and locals alike
Jackson Hole is not an easy place to reach. Tucked into the Wyoming mountains hours from the nearest city, it has long drawn celebrities and billionaires who prize its distance from everything else, and sky-high prices to match. For most of the year, that...
Readers around the world have made Levi Shmotkin’s ‘Letters for Life’ an international bestseller
Earlier this year, author Rabbi Levi Shmotkin gave a talk in Fresno, Calif., about the approach of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—to mental health and emotional wellness. Shmotkin had recently published a book on the subject, ...
As the country marks 250 years, four historic buildings tied to the Revolution are now Chabad centers
There’s a Chabad center in Brooklyn, N.Y., where it is said that George Washington himself stayed in and stopped in for tea. Chabad-Lubavitch of Flatbush has been housed in the Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, a Dutch Colonial farmhouse on Brooklyn’s Kings High...
Now in its fifth year, the 18-week health and Torah-study regimen attracted 150 participants in NYC
Gilad Gvili had two goals when he stood up at a Shabbat dinner at Manhattan’s Chelsea Shul in February. “For this Lift & Learn season, my physical goal is to bench press 225 pounds three times,” he told the room of about 60 people. “Today, I can only ...
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